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Date:   Wed, 20 Jan 2021 13:45:24 +0000
From:   Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
To:     Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] ARM: arm64: Add SMCCC TRNG entropy service
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On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 13:26:26 +0000
Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> wrote:

Hi,

> On 2021-01-20 13:01, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 10:34:48 +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:  
> >> a fix to v5, now *really* fixing the wrong priority of SMCCC vs.
> >> RNDR in arch_get_random_seed_long_early(). Apologies for messing
> >> this up in v5 and thanks to broonie for being on the watch!
> >> 
> >> Will, Catalin: it would be much appreciated if you could consider 
> >> taking
> >> patch 1/5. This contains the common definitions, and is a
> >> prerequisite for every other patch, although they are somewhat
> >> independent and likely
> >> will need to go through different subsystems.
> >> 
> >> [...]  
> > 
> > Applied the first patch only to arm64 (for-next/rng), thanks!
> > 
> > [1/5] firmware: smccc: Add SMCCC TRNG function call IDs
> >       https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/67c6bb56b649  
> 
> I can't see how the rest of the patches can go via any other tree
> if all the definitions are in the first one.
> 
> Andre, can you explain what your plan is?

Well, I don't really have a great solution for that, other than hoping
that 1/5 makes it into Linus' master at some point.

I see that it's a stretch, but pulling 1/5 into 5.11 now would
prepare the stage for the others to go via any tree, into 5.12-rc1?

Or you could maybe take both 1/5 and 5/5 into your kvm-arm tree, and
would hope that a git rebase later would sort this out for you?

But I think you are much more experienced in those kind of issues, so
happy to hear about any other solutions.

Thanks,
Andre